Fashionable; comme il faut; the mode. This is an archaic French word in vogue in the seventeenth century. It really is the Spanish chico, little, also a little boy, and chica, a little girl or darling. Similarly, wee in Scotch is a loving term of admiration and pride. (Chic is an abbreviation of the German geschickt, apt, clever.)

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Juse de mots de lart, je met en marge hic;

Jespere avec le tems que jentendrai le chic.

Les Satyres de Du Lorens, xii. p. 97.

Avoir le chic. To have the knack of doing the thing smartly.

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Chicard and chicandard = elegant, de grand style, are very common expressions with artists.